＜Story＞
Koji Akashi has returned to his hometown for the first time in several years as informed of his father’s suicide. His father was a whistleblower who revealed the car part's defect hidden within a major automaker, but was forced to kill himself in the end. The bereaved family is at the brink of collapse in term of finance, affection as well as compassion. One night, Koji meets a man called Kitamura at the small factory he left the family. Kitamura works at a children's nursing home and he offers to help Koji’s difficult situation. However, the truth is that Kitamura and his comrades get involved in crime based on a conviction that they do protect children. Koji feels puzzled at first, but he is gradually possessed with the eccentric man Kitamura, and then his desire for revenge begins to arise in himself in confusion between good and evil.

＜Staff＞
Director：Michihito Fujii / Producer: Takayuki Yamada, Chikara Ito, Masahiro Iwasaki/ Screenwriter: Michihito Fujii, Kazuhisa Kodera, Takayuki Yamada / Cast: Shinnosuke Abe, Masanobu Ando, Kaya Kiyohara

Year of production: 2019
Running time: 134’
Country: Japan

＜Guest＞
Shinnosuke Abe
Born on February 19, 1982 in Osaka. Made his acting debut in Lovers' Kiss (2003). His main credits include CROWS II (2009), Thirteen Assassins (2010), BADBOYS (2011), DOG x POLICE: The K-9 Force (2011), Oh! Father (2014), Nobunaga Concerto (2016), Sin and Bus (2016) and Kamisama no Wadachi: Checkpoint of the Life (2018). His latest films, Shiori and Out & Out, will be released in autumn 2018.

＜Story＞
In the gaudy, flamboyant world of Lucha Libre, Cassandro is its most eccentric star. He is the king of the Exóticos, the gender-bending cross-dressing wrestlers who fight prejudice as much as their opponents in this macho-dominated sport.
Despite his lacquered hair, his mascara and his perfectly curled eyelashes, Cassandro is a combat beast, a many-times World Champion, who pushes his body to its most extreme limits. It’s rare not to see him at the end of a fight with his face covered in blood, a dislocated elbow or a broken knee!
However, after twenty-six years of spins, dives and headbutts in the ring, Cassandro’s body is in pieces and his confidence faltering, as he feels the grip of a particular traumatic past. But he just can’t stay away too long from the spotlights...

＜Staff＞
Director：Marie Losier / Producer: Carole Chassaing and Antoine Barraud / Editor: Ael Dallier Vega / Cinematographer: Marie Losier / Music:Marie Losier

Year of production: 2018
Running time: 73’
Country: France

＜Story＞
In the North of Thailand, Matt pursues the dream of her late husband by running his strawberry farms while raising their teenage son, Tan. Growing up in the shadow of his parents’ perfect love, Tan feels the urge to experience the world outside and shape his own future. At 19, Tan arrives in Bangkok to study, and the city is so different from the remote farming community he’s come from. In college, Tan meets June, a young woman whose worldview and adventurous attitude fascinate. The two teenagers set out to explore their emotions and anxiety, while Matt negotiates her past romance with her present feelings.

＜Staff＞
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr / Producer: Nonzee Nimibutr and Namon Pongvilai / Screenwriter: Kiet Songsanan and Apichett Kamphu Na Ayuthya / Editor: Manussa Vorasingha

Year of production: 2014
Running time: 135’
Country: Thailand

＜Story＞
Mamacita is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom in company of her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stone walls. When José Pablo went abroad to study film, Mamacita made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. He conquers his granny’s empire like a Trojan horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations.

＜Director＞José Pablo Estrada Torrescano

Producer: José Pablo Estrada Torrescano and Arne Birkenstock / Screenwriter: José Pablo Estrada Torrescano / Editor: Mechthild Barth

Year of production: 2018
Running time: 75’
Country: Mexico,Germany

＜Story＞
In the spring of 1945, cherry blossoms flower in southern Sakhalin. For Tetsu Ezure and her sons, they symbolize hope. But the following August, the Soviet Union invades and they flee from Sakhalin. Barely managing to make it across the strait to Hokkaido, they make their way down the coast to Abashiri. Awaiting the battered family there is a life so harsh as to strain the imagination: cold and hunger through which they must struggle to survive.
In 1971 the younger son, Shujiro, now grown, has succeeded in the U.S., and returns to Japan as president of a chain of hotdog outlets. He returns to Abashiri for the first time in 15 years to find his older brother gone and his elderly mother living alone in poverty, still waiting for her husband to return. Shujiro decides to take her to Sapporo and care for her there.

＜Staff＞
Director: Yojiro Takita / Producer: Riuko Tominaga / Screenwriter: Machiko Nasu / Cinematographer: Takeshi Hamada
＜Cast＞
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Masato Sakai
Ryoko Shinohara
Ittoku Kishibe
Reiko Takashima Toshiyuki Nagashima
Ken Yasuda　Tōru Nomagudhi　Katsuya Maiguma
Shōfukutei Tsurube　Masatoshi Nakamura
Hiroshi Abe
Kōichi Satō

Year of production: 2018
Running time: 126’
Country: Japan

＜Guest＞
Katsuya Maiguma
Born March 28, 1987 in Hiroshima, Japan.
Maiguma’s outstanding performance in his debut feature Ken and Kazu (17’, Dir: Hiroshi Shoji) earned The Mainichi Film Concours for Best New Actor, and Takasaki Film Festival Award for Best New Age Actor. This year Maiguma appeared in 13 films including Sakura Guardian in the North (dir: Yojiro Takita), The Shoplifters (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda), Recall (dir: Katsuhide Motoki), Think Again, Junpei (dir: Toshiyuki Morioka), A Crimson Star (dir: Aya Igashi), Dare to Stop Us (Dir: Kazuya Shiraishi). He also starred in Hideo Jojo’s Watashi no Dorei ni Narinasai : Chapter 2 and 3. Currently Maiguma is one of the most in-demand actors.

＜Story＞
Chen Liang, a young Chinese man is an illegal immigrant in Japan. One day he receives a call about a job offer meant for someone else. In his desperation, he pretends to be the intended recipient in order to get the job, which turns out to be work at a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master with the fear that his identity could be exposed at any moment.

＜Staff＞Director: Kei Chikaura / Screenwriter: Kei Chikaura / Editor: Kei Chikaura / Cast: Lu Yulai, Tatsuya Fuji, Sayo Akasaka, Kio Matsumoto

Year of production: 2018
Running time: 116’
Country:Japan/China

＜Guest＞
Tatsuya Fuji
Born in 1941 in Beijing, China and living most of his life in Japan, Tatsuya Fuji has starred more than 80 films and TV series in his 45-year acting career. In 1976, his lead- ing performance in Nagisa Oshima’s controversial film In the Realm of the Senses put him under the spotlight. Four of his films, In the Realm of Senses and Empire of Passion by director Nagisha Oshima, Bright Future (2000) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Radiance (2017) by Naomi Kawase, went to the big screen of the Festival de Cannes. In 2005, his profound portrayal in the film Mura No Shashinshuu awarded him the Best Actor of Golden Goblet Award at Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2015, Tatsuya Fuji starred Takeshi Kitano’s Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen.

＜Story＞
Umi has such a good ear, the slightest dissonant sound makes her head ache. The violinist Yuko has come from Tokyo to the island for a concert. Both are troubled by family and friends, but when they meet on the island, they find common ground through music. A tale of one summer when music brought people together in the village of Zamami, in the Kerama islands. In her first film in 11 years, Kaze Shindo directs child prodigy Aoi Ito and Japan Academy Prize-winning Sakura Ando, one of Japan’s leading actresses. The lives of the islanders and the bonds created by music are deftly woven around “Shimajima Kaisha,” a classic Okinawan tune by Tsuneo Fukuhara.

＜Staff＞
Director: Kaze Shindo / Producer: Jiro Shindo / Screenwriter: Kenichiro Isoda / Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamazaki

Year of production: 2016
Running time: 100’
Country: Japan

＜Guest＞
Jiro Shindo
He was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1949. In 1971 he graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University. While attending the university, he took still pictures in production companies, mainly directed by Kaneto Shindo. Since 1979, he had been a producer of "Ōedo Sōsamō" (TV Tokyo) at Mifune Production. He is the producer of "Kindai Eiga Kyokai", since 1986's "Blackboard". He received the Fujimoto Award, the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts, and the Sarhe Award, for "Postcard ", directed by Kaneto Shindo.